"This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents in acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the…
The last two decades have witnessed an exponential growth in debates on the use of foreign law by courts. Different labels have been attached to the same phenomenon: judges drawing inspiration from outside of their national legal systems for solving purely domestic disputes. By …
by Clayton, David, Hills, Michael
fromOxford science publications
